On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:00:57 -0400
Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com> wrote:
> Sure, neat if you can find it.
There is plenty of FDDI stuff on ePay for cheap.
> But FDDI is dead, dead, dead.
??? Isn't all the stuff we use and talk about here "dead, dead, dead"?
Even 10 MBit/s Ethernet is "dead, dead, dead". (At least in its 10Base5
and 10Base2 incarnations.) FDDI is the "proper" and in most cases only
available 100 MBit/s network technology for older machines like a SGI
Indigo or DEC 3000.
> And Ethernet doesn't have any collisions either if you run it full
> duplex.
And when two machines are pushing 8 MBit/s each to a third machine? The
target machine surely can't handle 16 MBit/s with its 10 MBit/s physical
link. So you loose bandwith due to collisions in case of high load - the
case where you don't want to loose any bandwith.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
Received on Fri Jul 09 2004 - 14:28:24 BST